According to Yasmin Porat – you can listen to a clip of her speaking below – Israeli forces "undoubtedly" killed innocent Israeli civilians, adding that they "eliminated everyone, including the hostages" amid the crossfire.
Many Israeli civilians in Kibbutz Be'eri were killed by Israeli forces, survivor Yasmin Porat told Israeli state radio in a now censored interview. Here it is with translation.
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Porat explained that once the fierce gun battles broke out between the IDF and Hamas, IDF soldiers indiscriminately fired their weapons at both the Hamas fighters and their Israeli prisoners.
"There was very, very heavy crossfire," Porat revealed, adding that there was even tank shelling.
(Related: Do you agree with Israel that the Palestinian people are just "human animals" undeserving of basic resources like fuel, electricity, food and water?)
Hamas militants treated Israeli hostages "humanely" before IDF soldiers arrived, Porat says
The 44-year-old mother of three alleges that prior to the arrival of IDF soldiers, the Palestinian captors treated her and other civilian hostages "humanely." In other words, Hamas may not be as violent, especially against civilians, as the Israeli government claims.
Porat was actually at the nearby "Nova" rave, she says, when she fled the scene during the attack and ended up in Kibbutz Be'eri, located along the Israel-Gaza border.
The interview took place on the radio program Haboker Hazeh, hosted by Aryeh Golan on state broadcaster Kan, with the aforementioned portions of it removed from the official online version.
"It may well have been censored due to its explosive nature," one report explains about the matter.
Porat actually lives in Kabri, a settlement near the border of Lebanon. She saw many terrible things that day, including the death of her partner, Tal Katz.
The point of Porat's claims, though, is to highlight the variance between what she says actually happened on October 7 and what the Israeli government claims happened in an apparent desperate attempt to justify the ethnic cleansing of Gaza.
"They did not abuse us," Porat says about her Hamas captors – Porat herself, by the way, received a bullet in the thigh, presumably from IDF soldiers. "They treated us very humanely."
"But that, I mean they guard us. They give us something to drink here and there. When they see we are nervous, they calm us down. It was very frightening, but no one treated us violently. Luckily, nothing happened to me like what I heard in the media."
One of the Palestinian fighters, who spoke Hebrew, apparently told Porat:
"Look at me well: we're not going to kill you. We want to take you to Gaza. We are not going to kill you. So be calm, you're not going to die."
"I was calm because I knew nothing would happen to me," Porat says about how she felt after being told this. "They told us that we would not die, that they wanted to take us to Gaza and that the next day they would return us to the border."
Even though the Palestinian fighters all had loaded weapons, Porat says they never once – not a single one of them – ever shot any captives or even threatened anyone with their weapons.
"In addition to providing the captives with drinking water, she said the fighters let them go outside to the lawn because it was hot, especially as the electricity was cut," another report adds about Porat's account of events.
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over 1 year ago
The way this article's headline is worded makes it sound like IDF led the raids that day. I would expect collateral damage in cross-fire.
Being treated humanely does not negate the fact that you were TAKEN HOSTAGE against your will, or that hundreds of people in your vicinity were previously gunned down.
As far as this false flag rhetoric goes, I did hear that forces were reassigned to reinforce the West Bank leaving the kibbutzim vulnerable.
over 1 year ago
I hear the beheaded and burned-alive victims of Hamas are not happy with their treatment.
over 1 year ago
Israel's leaders are all war criminals
over 1 year ago
You can completely disregard anyone who says the Hamas attack was a false flag.
over 1 year ago
What a bunch of BS!
over 1 year ago
Tehran know all about CIA, they possibly got enough brains to run it. Watch them agents gettimg neutralized humanely or otherwise.
over 1 year ago
Ethan Huff lied to us about the false story he wrote about the hospital attack & has not retracted his story much less apologized for spreading false enemy propaganda that made a bad situation worse. Now he expects us to believe an even more bazaar story that sounds like it was written by a Hamas propagandist. His articles are making Natural News look like CNN, where one needs to believe the opposite of what they claim. I am so disappointed in Natural News. I used to check it every day & now need to spend my time looking elsewhere for ACCURATE information. :-<
over 1 year ago
It's a false equivalecy to equate this alleged incident with the wholesale slaughter committed by Hamas.
over 1 year ago
Ever been to a black community in Chicago? They kill each other all the time. America first is beneath the rumble of Gaza.